Since Vermont independence candidate Dennis Steele announced his candidacy for governor on January 15 at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Montpelier, there have been at least a dozen debates involving the five Democratic candidates. Lt. Governor Brian Dubie has been invited to most of these debates, but has cleverly declined so as to avoid being the target of the Democrats, since he is the lone Republican candidate.
Even though secessionist Dennis Steele has collected over 600 signatures for his candidacy (only 500 are required), he has not been invited to a single debate. What is particularly reprehensible is the fact that Dennis has been snubbed twice by Middlebury College and UVM, both of whom have each sponsored or hosted two debates.
Without exception the debates have been unbelievably boring. All five of the neoliberal Democrats are unconditionally committed to the American Empire – the largest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all-time. They have no interest whatsoever in facilitating the return of Vermont’s National Guard troops from Afghanistan or Iraq. They seem to be oblivious to the fact that the U.S. Government has lost its moral authority, since it is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate America, and the Israeli Lobby. None of them grasp the fact that the United States is unsustainable, ungovernable, and, therefore, unfixable. While they are long on job creation rhetoric, they are abysmally short on specific strategies. They all march to the beat of the same drummer. There is no sense of urgency – just blah, blah, blah.
Of what are these lackluster, spineless wimps so afraid? Why are they unwilling to engage Dennis Steele in a conversation about the pros and cons of Vermont once again becoming an independent republic? If one of them is elected governor, will he or she sit idly by and watch Vermont go down with the Titanic?
Is there a genuine fear that Dennis may not be just another know-nothing, do-nothing governor like Jim Douglas, but rather a governor who will lead the United States of America into disunion? Maybe Susan Bartlett, Matt Dunne, Deborah Markowitz, Doug Racine, and Peter Shumlin actually know that the emperor has no clothes, but they are clueless as to what to do about it?
Just as the economy of the European Union and its currency the euro are going down, so too could the U.S. economy and the dollar be next. Contrary to what we were told by CNBC, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, the 1,000 point drop in the stock market on May 6 was not caused by random error, neither was the surge in the price of gold. While Bill McKibben and his preppie Middlebury College students are running around shouting “350.org,” the world is running out of oil, and President Barack Obama is preparing to invade Iran. Meanwhile, Vermont’s impotent clergy and gutless college professors sit silently on the sidelines afraid to utter a single politically incorrect word.
The American Empire is all about separation, meaninglessness, powerlessness, and death. If French existentialist Albert Camus were still alive today, he would call it “absurd.” Dennis Steele is the only Vermont gubernatorial candidate who has the guts to rebel against the Empire. That’s why he’s not invited to the debates.
“It is those who know how to rebél, at the appropriate moment, against history who really advance its interests,” said Camus. Dennis Steele is such a person.
Imagine…Free Vermont
Thomas H. Naylor
May 10, 2010
